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| List of tables and figures | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Plans for sex-role behavior | |
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| Scripts for female power | |
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| From "the complete perfect unity": the Balinese | |
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| The creative grandmother of the primeval sea: the Semang | |
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| Father, mother, lover, friend: the Mbuti | |
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| The mother of the earth beings who fell from the sky: the Iroquois | |
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| One couple from the sky and one couple from the earth: the Ashanti | |
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| The female creative principle | |
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| Scripts for male dominance | |
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| Eve's transgression, God's punishment, and female power: the Hausa | |
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| The merging and splitting of animals, mothers, and males: the Mundurucu | |
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| Nullifying female power: the Papagoes | |
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| The fierce people: the Yanomamo | |
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| The psychological bedrock | |
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| Constructing sex-role plans | |
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| The environmental context of metaphors for sexual identities | |
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| Gender symbolism in creation stories: inward females and outward males | |
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| Male parenting and creation symbolism | |
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| The role of environment | |
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| Environment, origin beliefs, and history | |
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| Reflections of social life and thought in origin stories | |
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| Plans for the sexual division of labor | |
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| The kinds of activities that are universally allocated to males | |
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| The cultural patterning of work | |
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| A third cultural configuration: the dual-sex orientation | |
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| Sex-role plans and configurations of culture | |
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| Blood, sex, and danger | |
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| The body as symbol | |
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| The body in society and nature: the Andaman Islanders | |
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| Fluctuating food, warfare, and fear of fluxing women: the Bellacoola | |
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| Pollution of menstrual blood and sexual intercourse | |
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| Male and female worlds | |
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| The women's world | |
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| The bases for female political and economic power and authority | |
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| The ascribed bases for female economic and political authority | |
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| The case of the Abipon: female power and the hunter/warrior configuration | |
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| The achieved bases for female economic and political power | |
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| The ascribed and achieved bases for female public power and authority and increasing technological complexity | |
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| The decline of the women's world: the effect of colonialism | |
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| The Igbo women's war | |
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| Handsome Lake and the decline of the Iroquois matriarchate | |
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| Female power and movement onto the Great Plains: the Lords of the Plains and the Sacred Buffalo Hat | |
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| The movement of foragers into marginal territories | |
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| The relationship between colonialism, a marginal food base, and female power | |
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| The dynamics of male dominance and sexual inequality | |
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| The bases for male dominance | |
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| Male dominance: mythical and real | |
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| The correlates of male dominance and sexual inequality | |
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| Anthropological explanations for male diminance | |
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| From the native's point of view | |
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| Male dominance: part of a cultural configuration or a solution to stress | |
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| Why women? | |
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| Defining the oppressor | |
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| Men, animals, and women: the Mbuti and the Desana | |
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| External and internal threats to social survival: mythical versus real male dominance in the New Guinea highlands | |
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| The experience of migration: the Azande versus the Bemba | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Conquerors of the land flowing with milk and honey | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| The goddess and Yahweh cults in Canaan | |
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| Adam and Eve: migrating men and foreign goddesses | |
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| In God's image | |
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| The early Christians | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Sample | |
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| Variables | |
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| Analysis of the relationship between environment, fathers' proximity to infants, and origin symbolism | |
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| Configurations for the division of labor | |
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| Construction of the measure for female economic and political power or authority | |
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| Male aggression scale and male dominance measure | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |